In Columns for VAN March / April 2025 issue, artist Day Magee discusses their experience of the Basic Income Pilot Programme, due to end this year; while Aoibheann Greenan’s Wellbeing Column offers guidelines for artists to uncover the deeper motivations of their creative practice. Kicking off a new column series on the SSI/VAN Archive, is an opinion piece about hazardous art materials by John Bowyer Bell, first published by the Sculpture Society of Ireland in October 1981. Also on the subject of archives, Clare Lymer outlines NIVAL’s recent acquisition of the Belfast International Festival of Performance Art Archive.
The Critique Section for this issue includes reviews of several recent shows: ‘Bog Skin’ at the RHA; Brian Maguire at the Hugh Lane Gallery; ‘Bodies’ at Waterford Gallery of Art; and Michael Wann at Solomon Fine Art. For In Focus, Barry McHugh invites reflections from the MAVIS/ARC alumni and associates on the impact and legacy of the former MA programme at IADT Dún Laoghaire.
Also featured in this issue are Orla Jackson and Joe Duggan’s Exhibition Profile on ‘Irish Art Now’ at the Embassy of Ireland in London; Sarah Long’s Book Review of Poor Artists; Rachel O’Dwyer’s Seminar Report on ‘Artworld Reputation in the Digital Age’; Lisa Fingleton’s Residency Report from Navdanya Biodiversity and Conservation Farm in Northern India; and Member Profiles on Kathryn Maguire and Louise Cherry.
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